It is with great sadness that I am obligated to inform you that New York Rotary Past
Trustee Bill Hall has passed away. He became a member of our legendary Rotary Club
in 1981. New York Rotary President Greg Lynch has written the following message
in memory of Bill Hall:

On March 24, 2004, our
Club lost a member very dear to all who knew him.† William Austin Hall was an architect of some
repute, founder of the Hall Architectural Partnership and with a family name so
uniquely suited to his chosen profession.†
Bill became a member of the Club in 1981.† His classification was Professional Architect.† When I first joined the Club some ten years
ago, i regularly ran into Bill on the way to our, then Thursday, meetings.† Bill was well educated and well informed,
particularly about the neighborhood we shared.†
His practice was on East
21st Street.†
Our chats on the way to the Club lunches made me feel very positive, not
only about the man but about the tone that he brought to the Club.† Bill was one of those people who made me feel
that Rotary Club of New York
was the right place for me.

Bill Hall was a quiet,
elegant gentleman.† He was also a
contributor to our Club activities and to building our New York Rotary Foundation.† Bill had been a Trustee of the Foundation and
shared an understanding and commitment to the service we, as New York
Rotarians, perform through the work of our Foundation.

In November 2003, I
asked Bill to act as Chairman of our Clubís Sunshine Committee, which acts as
the good shepherd in reaching out to members who may not be coming to lunches
due to illness or otherwise.† Sometime
later, I received a most elegant letter from Bill, saying he did not have my
heart in the assignment.† Only after the
holidays, did I realize that Bill himself was one of those who, because of his
illness, required some looking after.†
After that we spoke regularly on the phone.† Three weeks before his passing, I had a brief
chat with Bill at our regular luncheon meeting.†
I could not have imagined then that we were saying goodbye.

Greg Lynch

President

Rotary Club of New York

March 25, 2004

Thank you Greg for your kind words about Bill. You can also find
Gregís message on our website at www.nyrotary.org/president_greg/william_hall.htm.
In the last 12 months of his life, Bill Hall contributed not less than three
Reporters of the Week for the Weekly Bulletin. You can find these issues on the
Internet at the following links:

President Greg has also
written an article to the Presidentís Page about when he visited the Clipper
Ship Stad Amsterdam at our New York
Seaport.† Greg wants to create awareness
about Netherlands Day, which is scheduled to be celebrated on June 15th.
The Chair of Netherlands Day
is our new member Christíl Dulleart, who is also Past Rotary Club President in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
She is by profession a philosopher with a concentration in ethics.† She advises some of the best known
institutions on the globe.† Christíl has
taken up the challenge provided by the major success scored by our Sweden Day
event on January 27th.†
Judging from the impressive list of event sponsors she is rounding up,
we could be in store for another major international day at the Club. Good luck
with the event Christíl. You can read Gregís article of our website at www.nyrotary.org/president_greg/president's_page_4-1.htm.
You can also see a picture from the event in the latest Bulletin at www.nyrotary.org/bulletin2004/bulletin_03-30-2004.pdf.

Our next meeting on
March 30th will be Fellowship Day with each of us as speakers. We
can speak to each other about ourselves, our businesses, our ideas and our
committees. We can also speak to a new member or bring a guest to experience
our fellowship. It is a perfect opportunity for chair people to meet with their
committees and to report committee progress at the microphone. You can read more about
our next Fellowship Day in the latest Bulletin on our website at www.nyrotary.org/bulletin2004/bulletin_03-30-2004.pdf(click on the link).

This weekís Reporter of
the Week in the Bulletin is written by Matthew Salerno, who became a member of
our legendary Rotary Club in 2001. His classification is Architecture -
Management. Thank you Matt for a very good report!

Our Board of Directors
has approved Sumio Sone as a new member. Welcome to our Rotary Club! Sumioís
Suggested Classification is TV Production. You can read more about Sumio in the
latest Bulletin.

The 1st Annual
Rotary Club of New York Retreat will take
place on Saturday, May 8th, at
the Grand Plaza Hotel, White Plains
to create a vision and plan for the 2004-05 Rotary year. You can register for
the event or find out more information about it on our website at www.nyrotary.org/retreat
or call New York Rotary Director David Del Monte at (212) 360-2283.

Helen Reisler, who is
Past President of the Rotary Club of New York and District 7230 Governor Nominee,
has sent me two messages that she received. The first message is from Jon
Singer at the Tenafly Rotary Club in New
Jersey:

My name is Jon Singer,
and I am a member of the Tenafly Rotary Club. Thank you for reviewing the
following, and for sharing this information with members of your club.

My sweet
seven-year-old daughter Rebecca and I will set out on April 2nd in a Maserati
(generously provided for the event by Maserati North America), with the goal of
visiting twenty Borders and Whole Foods Market locations throughout New Jersey
and New York City in a twenty-four hour period - "The 20 Store Twenty-Four
Hour Tour for Autism" - to raise funds, and to symbolize the need to
quickly find help for individuals and families affected by autism.

These events are a
follow-up to our August 2002 cross- country trek that kicked off The Drive for
Rebecca, an effort named for my daughter Rebecca who has a rare genetic
disorder that causes autistic tendencies. Since that time, we have raised
over $100,000 to help advance medical research, support several autism
education and advocacy programs and help establish a new school.

New York education
autism programs that will benefit from our efforts include EDEN II, Genesis and
NYCLI.

We would appreciate
your help in getting the word out to members of your club, to use the flyers in
Borders Books stores and to come out and greet us as we finish our trip in NYC
on Saturday April 3rd in the morning.

All Borders and Whole
Foods stores in New Jersey
and NYC are participating. For our schedule of store visits, please go
to:

We will be at the
Whole Foods store on 24th & 7th around 9am and will conclude our trip with
visits to Borders and Whole Foods stores at the new TimeWarnerCenter.

Borders is planning
benefit days for April 2nd and 3rd, where 15% of purchases accompanied by a
special flyer will be donated to benefit

Autism.

For Rotary members in need
of books, CDs or DVDs, flyers can be downloaded from our web site, and it would
be wonderful if they could be circulated at your next Rotary on Tuesday March
30th before our drive:

Thank you for anything
that you can do to let other Rotarians know about these upcoming events, for
circulating the flyers and for whatever you can do to rally Rotary members to
meet us for our local events.

The second message that
Helen sent me is written by Major David Sebuck, who is stationed in Iraq and he has a question about Gift of Life in
Iraq:

Sir,

I'm Major Sebuck,
Executive Officer of Mihn Tran's former unit currently in Iraq. Lt Tran
served under my current commanding officer during OIF I and had mentioned your
organization on several occasions. I'm contacting you regarding the Gift
of Life and its current status, if any, in Iraq. I'm co-located with 1MARDIV
HQ and the Civil Affairs personnel. The services you bring can go a long way in
improving the lives of many children as well as improving relations between the
coalition forces and the Iraqi. If I can be of assistance by providing points
of contact at the Division or working with you directly on this endeavor in any
way, please contact me.

Semper Fidelis,

Major David Sebuck

Executive Officer,
CSSG-11 (FWD)

Thank you Helen for
sending me this message, it shows how humanitarian our soldiers in Iraq are. I
hope that Gift of Life will be able to help.

I received the following
message from Mark Lane-Jones, who is President of Gaborone
Rotary Club in Botswana, Africa:

Dear Matts
Ingemanson

Carl Berentsen and
Mike Lakin have given me your name.

I am the current
president of the Gaborone
Rotary Club. We are raising funds for building two orphans day care
centers here - I think you can guess why the no. of orphans is increasing at an
alarming rate - Botswana has the highest percentage of HIV positive people in
the world. We have managed to get a magnum of South African wine signed
by Nelson Mandela. In April, three of us are going to WashingtonDC
at our own expense, to auction it at a function there at the German Embassy on
17 April. We hope we can get lots more for it in the USA. We
also hope to do a very short presentation at the WashingtonDC
lunchtime meeting on 14 April. We have the support of the American
Ambassador to Botswana,
Joseph Huggins, who will also be there.

I will be traveling
with my wife Mary and two other club members. In a few days time I
hope I can send you electronic details of our project which is one that will
definitely happen.

We actually arrive at
JFK on 11 April to do a couple of days sightseeing and if possible visit your
club though I'm not sure when you meet and I know its over Easter there.
We will probably travel to WashingtonDC on 13 April and depart from DC
late evening on Sunday 18 April.

Hope to be able to
contact you or your fellow members.

Regards

Mark Lane-Jones

President - Gaborone Rotary Club

Thank you Mark for your
message, I hope that you will visit our Rotary Club on Tuesday April 13th
at 12:00 PM before you leave for Washington,
DC. We meet at the Princeton
Club, which is located on 15 West
43rd Street her in New York.

I also received the
following message from Rotarian Bertram Andrews in Canada:

Dear Matts,

It is such a pleasure
to hear such wonderful news emanating from your club. I had the good fortune of
visiting your club toward the end of May into early June last year and still
harbor pleasant memories of that treasured occasion.

I remember fondly when
your pianist who is also a Rotarian played the Canadian National Anthem in my
honor.

It is obvious that
yours is an extremely busy club and I can read through your e-mail submissions,
the joy you derive from apprising the members of the many activities going on
in and around the membership.

Continued good luck to
you and you team and your efforts and kindly accept my thanks and
appreciation for keeping me up-dated.

Yours in Rotary.

Bert.

Thank you Bert for your
greeting, please come and see us again when you are in New York.

Don't forget to reserve your table for our next meeting. You can
reserve via e-mail to our office at ny.rotary@verizon.net, or call Andreas or Ana
at 212-633-1311. You can also fax in the RSVP form, which you can download at www.nyrotary.org/bulletin2004/rsvp_03-30-2004.pdf. Our fax number is 212-633-1954.
At our next meeting, the culinary staff at the Princeton
Club will serve us Fellowship Day - Buffet.

The power of the
Internet puts the brains of millions of people together. It also puts 1.2
million Rotarians together. It does not matter where we are and when we are
available. The Internet makes it possible for Rotarians around the world to
instantly participate.

I want to thank our Executive Director
Andreas Runggatscher and his Executive Assistant Ana Rivas for working so hard every
week creating and mailing the Weekly Bulletin. In addition to mailing it out to
our members, they also send me the electronic Bulletin so I can upload it on
our website. They have also been working hard with the administration of the WorldTradeCenter
- Disaster Relief Fund.

In order to read the PDF
file of the Bulletin-on-the-Web, you need Acrobat Reader Version 5.0 or later.
If you don't have Acrobat Reader, you can download Acrobat Reader 6.0 for free
from the web at:

You need Windows Media Player to listen to
Rotary Radio. Windows Media Player is included with Windows Millennium and
Windows XP. If you use Windows 95 or Windows 98, you can download Windows Media
Player for free from Microsoft.